No, it’s not only against her personal religious beliefs….it’s against the religious beliefs of millions of people world wide. When a 3% of a population demands a change, it doesn’t mean that the other 97% should simply give in to it because you think you’re in the right. There’s much more issue than simply letting homosexuals who want to change one’s religious beliefs.

following your logic you agree that countries like pakistan are right to deny christians their right to practise their faith, because as you say ‘…it doesn’t mean that 97% (according to wikipedia, 97% people in pakistan are muslim) should simply give in to it because you christians think they are in the right.

I don’t want to change anyone’s religious beliefs, I just don’t want you telling me how to live my life.

You can believe in fairies, and magic bread, and magic wine, and genocide, and mass murder, and the oppression of women, and slavery, child sacrifice, bringing the dead back to life, and that two of every living thing fitted on a wooden boat, and that women were made from a rib of a man, the world is flat, the sun actually revolves around the earth and that dinosaurs were walking around at the same time as humans.

JUST KEEP IT TO YOURSELF! Because really you are only embarassing yourself and making us pity you you poor deluded fool.

How very dare you! Your soul is your business and my soul is mine. I don’t tell you who or how you should love so don’t tell me who and how I should love. Membership of a church is voluntary so your rules only apply to your members. Churches/religion are separate from the state, the churches do not own the agenda or law making, so back off and leave the law making to institutions that are required to respect equality.

I respect your right to your beliefs, but your rights does not extend to telling me how to live my life. I am happy if religion brings you some kind of comfort or re-assurance but it makes no sense to me, I do’t feel superior and neither do I expect to tell you how you to live your life. How I conduct my life in private has no impact on you, so BACK OFF, I do not need saving, you do not need to save my, just get on with your own life minding your own business.

Nobody is forcing any religious loon to change his or her beliefs since it doesn’t affect their ability to worship, continue marrying in their churches or procreating for those who can. The only people it affects are gay people. Until the Archbishop of Canterbury and his church renounce belief in the marriage of one man and one woman, nobody’s beliefs will have changed. His church is banned from recognising or participating in the new law. Now the onus is on you to prove to us just how beliefs have been changed or forced to change?

We have in our country Government sponsored public consultations. The Equal Marriage consultation was the longest in history and the majority of the British public (53%) responded favourably. So the 97% you mention is mendacious at best.

Ms. Summers, FYI….civil marriage in the UK wasn’t invented by your fictitious sky pixie but by the state in the 19th century to allow adulterous sinners, divorced people to remarry without the interference of religious loons like you.

We can expect Sharon James to invoke the declining marriage rates in Argentina, Spain, Holland and elsewhere since the introduction of equal marriage. Same old crap.

The definition of the word ‘marriage’ includes the aspect that it is between a man and a woman. Gay couples are already protected in civil partnerships. Why are gay couples so insistent on getting married?